Brief History

Founded in 1950 as the Tamkang Junior College of English by Mr.
Chang Ching-sheng and his son Dr. Clement C. P. Chang, TKU was
the first private college in Taiwan. It became the Tamkang College
of Arts and Sciences in 1958, before being renamed as Tamkang
University in 1980. As one of the first-established schools of higher
education, TKU now has four campuses: the Tamsui Campus, the
Taipei Campus, the Lanyang Campus, and the Cyber Campus; and 8
colleges, with a total of over 27,000 students, more than 2,100 faculty
and staff members, and over 240,000 alumni.

Tamkang is a university of ideals, vision, and creativity. It sees the
pursuit of excellence and ongoing innovation as the primary means of
achieving sustainable management. Over the last 60-plus years since
its foundation, TKU has focused on developing academic research,
teaching, and learning services with an innovative spirit. It was the
first university in Taiwan to employ Total Quality Management (TQM),
which it introduced in 1992. In 2006, the Tamkang Quality Award was
initiated to recognize outstanding departments committed to TQM.
It has generated impressive results and garnered positive public
feedback. It also helped TKU win the prestigious National Quality
Award in 2009.

Since its inception as a university, Tamkang University has had six
scholar-educators serving as president: Clement C. P. Chang, Yeahong
Chen, Louis R. Chow, Yun-shan Lin, Horng-jinh Chang, and
the current President, Flora C.I. Chang, who assumed presidency on
August 1, 2004. A year after assuming presidency, President Flora C.I.
Chang oversaw the establishment of the TKU Lanyang Campus. In
doing so, she placed TKU on the path to becoming an internationallyrenowned
institute of learning.

Tamkang’s administrative teams have applied innovative strategies
to promote the Three Circles and Five Disciplines of Education. The
“Three Circles” refer to Tamkang’s professional curriculum, core
curriculum, and extracurricular curriculum, while the “Five Disciplines
of Education” include conduct, intelligence, physical education,
teamwork, and beauty. TKU has nurtured academic growth through
its “Triple Objectives of Education,” which refers to globalization (the
spatial pattern of the future), information-oriented education (the life
pattern of the future), and future-oriented education (the time frame
of the future). With its motto of “Simplicity, Truthfulness, Firmness, and
Perseverance,” Tamkang strives to fully develop students’ potential. It
aims to help every Tamkangian establish a firm foothold at Tamkang
University and seeks to become a world-renowned, top quality
comprehensive university by providing its students with the most
recent learning resources and training.

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